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Be Creative To Afford What You Want
By following the conventional path of "school to loan to university to work" you risk running into serious debt. Being creative is a potential way to lessen or eliminate that.
Maybe finding a different and cheaper way of doing the same thing, doing a yard sale or getting a side job… Put your mind to it and you may find ways to get a financial boost.
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The Problem With Mutual Funds
When you buy mutual funds, you are charged a purchase fee upfront. This is a one-time payment to the fund management institution. Annually, you will be charged with a percentage of management fees, commonly known as “expense ratio”, which can be expensive.
Beware when advisors at your bank recommend mutual funds to buy. They might be earning a sales commission.
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Common Recurring Expenses
- Financial fees. Consider negotiating them with your banker or changing banks.
- Interest for short-term debt. If you cannot avoid it completely, then use a bank that charges less interest.
- Stocks brokerage account fees. Usually comes as monthly account fees and trading fees.
- Mutual funds management fees or “expense ratio.” Those are charged annually and can go over 2%.
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Reduce Recurring Expenses
One way to save money is to identify and cut down on recurring expenses that don’t add value to your life. A good rule of thumb is to cancel if it is something you might want to use “someday.”
Even if the recurring expense offers you value, you can investigate how you can reduce it without sacrificing comfort in your daily life.
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Automating For Better Personal Finances
- Saving: automatically transfer every month from your income into a savings account.
- Investing: do “dollar-cost averaging” if you’re familiar with the cave eats of trading stocks, ETFs, bonds or mutual funds. It consists of a stock trading account set to automatically buy them for a fixed amount of money every month.
- Reinvesting: reinvest the yields from your investments by instructing your manager to buy stocks with the money.
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Automation Is Easier Than Discipline
You should automate what you can so you don’t have to keep off the discipline to do those things.
Automating aspects of your personal finance can afford you more time and mental capacity to focus on other aspects of life.
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Saving Through Frugality
Frugality cannot be the sole cornerstone of our personal finance strategy.
Because we can’t save more than what we earn and saving by itself leads to losses, due to inflation devaluing your money.
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Keep everything as simple as possible
Don’t ever let your “future self”...
Your future self might have more income, but it’s also fairly likely that your future self might have less income and you’ll find yourself in a really bad situation.
Even if your future self is doing well, there are probably going to be other big expenses that you’ll want to deal with at that time, like buying a house.
Focus on...
- Building an emergency fund: set up an automatic weekly or monthly transfer from your checking account to your savings, then leave the savings alone until an emergency appears.
- Eliminating high-interest debt: Set up a simple debt repayment plan by organizing your debts by interest rate, then attempt to make a double payment on whatever debt has the highest interest rate.
- Saving for retirement: It will actually end up being a much smaller burden than you expect, lifted up by the pleasure of knowing that you’re securing your retirement.
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3 Financial Basics
- Create a Financial Calendar: prevent yourself from forgetting quarterly tax payments and to get credit reports.
- Check Your Interest Rate: Pay off loans, open saving accou...
Budgeting Like a Pro
- Consider an All-Cash Diet, as limiting yourself to physical currency combats overspending.
- Set aside 1 minute a day to check on your financial transactions, to identify problems, track goal progress and set your spending tone.
- Allocate at least 20% of your income to financial priorities like emergency funds, debts and retirement fund.
- Budget about 30% of your income for nonbasic spendings, like entertainment. Abiding by the 30% rule, you can save and splurge at the same time.
How to Get Money Motivated
- Draft a Financial Vision Board, it motivates and helps you to stay on track with your financial goals.
- Set specific financial goals stating the reason, the way, numbers and dates.
- Adopt a spending mantra, a phrase that serves as a rule of thumb for how you spend.
- Love yourself. Taking control of your finances is part of that.
- Make bite-size money goals. Make the bigger ones but also small step goals to get there.
- Don’t be a financial fatalist, and switch to more positive mantras.
- Get your finances and body in shape. The discipline associated with regular exercising translates to managing your money well.
- Appreciate what you have now, instead of being a consumerist.
- Get a Money Buddy. Studies indicate people pick up good habits from friends with similar traits.
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Side Hustle to Make More Money
You don't have to sacrifice all of your free time to start a side hustle, use the time you’re comfortable with and make a little bit of progress every day.
Take Action
Get to working on improving your finances today, not tomorrow. Reading the steps and thinking you’re capable of doing it but postponing it is just an excuse, an unprofitable one.
Communicate With Your Partner
Talking about your financial goals, and scheduling time once a month to go over your finances together can prevent money from affecting your relationship.